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- 5 Wash. bikini baristas accused of prostitution - Greenville News
- Official business - Boston Globe
- Forbes: Colorado is America's 4th-best state for business - Denver Business Journal
- NetSuite: Run Your Business From Your iPhone - BusinessWeek
- Dernoga to host local business forum - Howard County Times
| 5 Wash. bikini baristas accused of prostitution - Greenville News Posted: 24 Sep 2009 09:06 AM PDT EVERETT, Wash. (AP) Five Washington state baristas charged customers to touch their breasts and buttocks at an espresso stand where servers wear bikinis to draw business, police said. The five were charged Wednesday with prostitution. Charging money for that kind of touching falls under the city's definition of prostitution. The Everett Herald reports the women were charging up to $80 to strip down while fixing lattes and mochas. During a two-month investigation, detectives also saw the women lick whipped cream off each other at the Grab-n-Go Espresso stand in Everett, about 30 miles north of Seattle. Owner Bill Wheeler told KCPQ-TV employees sign a policy prohibiting the kind of behavior alleged by police. He said anyone caught doing anything illegal would be fired. The women, ages 18 to 24, were not arrested, said Sgt. Robert Goetz. They were expected to be in Municipal Court in a few weeks to answer misdemeanor charges. Police have received more than 40 complaints in the past year of women exposing themselves at coffee stands. Goetz said the department investigated Grab-n-Go because it had the most complaints. This was about alleged conduct, not about what the women were wearing, he said. They could have been wearing parkas and if they continued to conduct themselves that way, we still would have filed the criminal charges. Undercover detectives began posing as customers in mid-July. During one visit, a barista allegedly told a detective that for $20, she and another barista would give him a show. He paid and they bared their breasts and pulled down their undergarments. The women also charged customers to play basketball, a game in which customers threw wadded up money at the women, who caught the money in their underwear, detectives said. The city council is expected to decide next week whether to change the city's lewd conduct ordinance to cover espresso stands. |
| Official business - Boston Globe Posted: 24 Sep 2009 09:06 AM PDT This week, state legislators passed a bill to allow the governor to name an interim senator, legislation that could lead to monumental changes and directly affect the lives of millions. But other bills being debated on Beacon Hill seek to appoint less lofty titles -- state sandwich, state candy bar, and state conductor, to name a few. Here's a look at some of the lesser bills filed this year. |
| Forbes: Colorado is America's 4th-best state for business - Denver Business Journal Posted: 24 Sep 2009 08:45 AM PDT Colorado ranks No. 4 on Forbes.com's latest ranking of the best states for business, up two notches from the 2008 list. The rankings are based on six criteria: costs, labor supply, regulatory environment, current economic climate, growth prospects and quality of life. Business costs -- including labor, energy and taxes -- were weighted the most heavily. Forbes rates Colorado No. 1 in the nation on labor supply, No. 2 on growth prospects, and No. 5 on economic climate. The state's only below-the-median ranking among the 50 states is for business costs (33rd). Colorado ranks No. 17 for regulatory environment and No. 15 for quality of life. The top 10 states on Forbes' best-for-business list:
In last place: Rhodes Island, which also finished last for its regulatory environment. Michigan is No. 49, Wisconsin No. 48, Vermont No. 47, West Virginia No. 46 and New Jersey No. 45. |
| NetSuite: Run Your Business From Your iPhone - BusinessWeek Posted: 24 Sep 2009 08:30 AM PDT Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on September 24
So what does it do? Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, and it tracks data from e-commerce sales, all of it running in the cloud, though in most cases, these are functions that would keep you at your desktop or notebook. If you're already a NetSuite user you're pretty much ready to go once you install the app on your device which becomes your go-anywhere NetSuite dashboard. And if your company has set up some custom data fields that are specific to your business, they come right into the iPhone. And yes, it's free, and all the features are covered in your NetSuite subscription fees. |
| Dernoga to host local business forum - Howard County Times Posted: 24 Sep 2009 08:23 AM PDT Prince George's County Council Vice-Chair Thomas Dernoga, of Laurel, will host a forum for small, minority and women business owners interested in increasing their capability to win competitive county contracts, on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. at Hope Christian Church, 6251 Ammendale Road in Beltsville. A representative from the Konterra project will be on hand to provide information and answer questions regarding the Konterra Town Center-East Project, which includes commercial space, multi-family units and hotel rooms on 132 acres east of I-95 in Laurel. To attend, call Prince George's County Compliance Manager Mirinda Jackson at 301-952-4919. |
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